Zoe Copeman article "Deviating from Monstrosity The Paradox of the Normal in Les Ecarts de la Nature by Nicolas-François and Geneviève Regnault" published

Zoe Copeman charts the migration of the monstrous to the pathological in pre- and post-revolutionary France

In a fascinating article in the most recent volume of Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, Zoe Copeman explores the shifting thinking about monstrosities, particularly those centered on the human body, in the late eighteenth and into the early nineteenth century. Her analyses of plates in Les Ecarts de la Nature, by Nicolas-François and Geneviève Regnault, and their shift in use from a pre-revolution edition of the same book, reveals the emergence of enlightenment projects to banish the marvelous and supernatural, and in the process creating binaries of ab/normal(ity) and un/natural(ness) with which we grapple today. An illuminating read, which you will find at Copeman, Zoe. "Deviating from Monstrosity: The Paradox of the Normal in Les Ecarts de la Nature, by Nicolas-François and Geneviève Regnault." Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 17, no. 4 (2023): 415-433. muse.jhu.edu/article/911293.

Congratulations Zoe!